From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-28 17:02:43
Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
> Anthony Williams wrote:
> > However, this would only work for unlocked mutexes --- a locked
> mutex would
>> potentially remain locked, but with no clear owner, or it might be unlocked,
>> depending on how the state was stored.
>
> Well, leaving a mutex locked in a file does not seem a very good idea.
> That would indicate that the process that has acquired the mutex has
> died, so I would assume the mapped file is corrupted. If we can make
> this work for locked mutexes would be good enough IMHO.
Correction: Support for *unlocked* mutexes would be good enough.
Regards,
Ion